View No. 5: The USS Intrepid

Watercolor on Linen / 14“X 19.5”

Most of Hudson’s second day was spent sailing along Manhattan Island. On the lower part of the island there existed a major Native American fort as well as various Indian villages along the Mohican Trail (Broadway). Though originally covered with a “majestic forest of gigantic trees”, the city today continues to sprout towers like weeds on many parts of the island.

 Most of the hundreds of commercial piers that eventually lined the harbor are now gone but a few of the remaining ones have been converted into parks. One pier has become the home of the USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier that served in both World War II and the Vietnam War and that helped NASA in recovery space missions. Designated a National Historic Landmark, it has been preserved as the Sea, Air and Space Museum.